Curried Noodles & Mother In Law's

Let's dicuss Mother-In-Law meals.
These are signature meals your mother in law makes, and her boy loves them to bits.

These meals are dangerous. If you make them and screw them up, he may just leave you.
If you make it better than your mother in law, she may never ever speak to you again.

So what's the trick to making everyone happy?

NEVER ask if it tasted better than the mother in law's version. EVER.

NEVER ask a man full stop to compare your meal to his mother's. EVER

This rule is ancient. Obey it. No one knows what happens if you don't follow this rule because no one has ever lived to tell the tale.

Seriously. Just don't.

True story: Last Christmas I made rum balls for the first time and Mr Food-Babies refused to eat them. Why? His mum makes awesome rum balls and point blank refused to try mine. 

Mr Food-Babies Mum is an amazing cook. And she makes Curried Noodles like a real pro. Lick the plate, spoons, pan, everything, spotless. Then go back  for more until you explode. I used to take the left overs to the bakery and make pies out of them. DAMN they were good.

Curried Noodles are Mr Food-Babies favourite meal.

So I took the plunge and made them from the recipe she gave me a year ago.
(It's taken me this long to pluck up the courage to make them!)

Ingredients:

• About 6 chicken thighs, cubed
• 1 onion
• 1 tomato
• Couple of cloves of garlic
• 3 tblsp Madras Paste (I use Pataks)
• Tumeric
• Chilli (LOTS of chilli!)
•  2 Cups water
•  2 tsp Palm Sugar
• 400ml coconut milk
• 2 tbsp Fish Sauce
• 250g noodles (I used thick noodles, NEVER AGAIN!)
• Bok Choy (Grocery shop had none, I used silverbeet)

KGO!

 Heat up a large pan and brown the chicken in batches. The idea is to just seal it, not to cook it completely.

Once the chicken is sealed, remove it from the pan and set it aside. Cover it. We don't want no flies in our curry! Make sure you keep the juices in the pan!!

Dice your onion, tomato, crush the garlic, add the paste, tumeric and chilli. Fry this up in the chicken juices.

Ahhh. Take a second to admire the smell and the colours :)

Fry it up until the onion is all soft and squishy.

This looks like baby sick.
It's actually the water, coconut milk, palm sugar and fish sauce. 

Whack the chicken back in the pan with the onion goodness and the baby sick coconut milk mix. 

Let it simmer for half hour - 45 mins. Whatever you feel is right.
I used 3 cups of water, just like the recipe said, and it was too watered down. Yukky. 

Scoop out as much chicken as you can. Set aside and again, cover it up. No one likes flies. 

Chuck the noodles in and let them boil for a minute or two, or until they are all separated.

Mr Food-Babies wanted me to use thick noodles instead of his mothers usual thinner noodles.
Never again. They were just too thick.

Now the recipe calls for Bok Choy. My grocery shop is pretty slack in the fresh food department. So I used silver beet. You only really need a little bit of silver beet, and chop it up good! Mine was a little big. 

Chicken goes back in, silverbeet goes in, simmer it for another few minutes and BAM
We have a Mother In Law Meal

That didn't quite live up to standard.

Serve with fresh white bread with plenty of butter.

Food Baby scale?
About 3 months pregnant. Needs thinner noodles and less water!